Founding member of the Wildlands team. We develop AI-backed tools to improve wildlands health and resilience by supporting fire management. See https://allenai.org/wildlands for more details.Formerly, in partnership with SR³ SeaLife Response, Rehabilitation, and Research, developed software to utilize photogrammetry of aerial imagery in order to noninvasively measure the health characteristics of orca whales and other marine mammals. This automated the analysis of aerial photos, which reduced processing time by a factor of 2-3 for each batch of images.

My group at Vulcan transitioned to AI2 on September 1, 2021. Please see the AI2 experience above.

Technical Lead for software that maintains high-quality, accurate models of Google’s datacenters and makes the data accessible, consistent, and useful. Services are used by planning and execution teams to facilitate efficient management of compute, storage, and network capacity in Google’s datacenters.Developed backend features in Google Contacts, which allows users to intelligently manage their contacts, and People API, which provides authenticated developer access to contacts and profile information. Focused on functionality for enterprise users.Architected automation and tooling for the Borg cluster management system, which handles hundreds of thousands of jobs from thousands of applications across Google.Built test infrastructure for the Caffeine web indexing system, which when launched in 2010 provided 50% fresher results for web searches than the previous web search index.Developed test infrastructure for the Google Chrome / Chromium web browser during its pre-launch and early post-launch stages. The browser launched publicly in 2008.

Developed text processing software for mining and analyzing scholarly publications, including finding inter-document links and relationships using citations and references.

Developed software to assist with storing data from the EarthKAM program, allowing middle school students to take photos of specific places on Earth from the International Space Station. Used vector data from the Johnson Space Center for image targeting.

Developed client software for a large-scale data warehouse.